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Eight Kings
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Eight Kings is a mnemonic to remember the cards in the deck in a specific apparently random order.
Eight kings threatened to save, nine fine ladies for one sick knave = 8-K-3-10-2-7-9-5-Q-4-A-6-J.
It's used in some Stack deck routines.
The system can be traced as far back as The Expositor by William Pinchbeck in 1805.